Whenever you hear someone start of by talking about how essential free speech is to society, always wait for the 'but':

British Prime Minister David Cameron thinks he's found some culprits to blame in the recent riots that have rocked London and other cities -- Facebook and Twitter ( Read more... )

Just had to stop at a DUI checkpoint on my way home ( Read more... )

From the AP:

Northeast braces for temps near boiling point ( Read more... )

Seriously, how the fuck does this shitty excuse of an awful joke of a fucking airline continue to stay in business ( Read more... )

So a while ago, Lois McMasters Bujold put a bunch of her books online as free book downloads.

I grabbed these, but I have no idea what order they should be read in. Help?

1. Miles in Love
2. Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem
3. Miles Errant
4. Miles, Mutants, and Microbes
5. Young Miles
6. Cordelia's Honor
7. Cryoburn

Don't die, Hitch. The world will be a dumber place once you're gone.

Bernard-Henri Lévy once even produced a damning time line showing that every Pakistani “capture” of a wanted jihadist had occurred the week immediately preceding a vote in Congress on subventions to the government in Islamabad. But not even I was cynical enough to believe that ( Read more... )

Howard Kunstler is currently blogging from a retard asylum:

Hitler loved the First World War. It energized him. The German army was the first club he was comfortable being in. When the war was over, he stayed on the army's payroll as long as possible, even as he became active in Munich's post-war extremist politics. The emergent Nazi party was the ( Read more... )

Look at the garbage Bernard-Henry Levy's written about Strauss-Kahn's arrest. Take note in particular of this bit:

What I do know is that nothing in the world can justify a man being thus thrown to the dogs ( Read more... )

The casting for Game of Thrones is perfect. It's such a good adaptation that I'm definitely glad I read the books first, because otherwise it would completely dominate any mental picture of their contents ( Read more... )

I just made the best fucking chili ( Read more... )